Need books? No.

Still about 70% coal and gas, big oof. Nuclear would help a lot, especially because Australia has one of the largest uranium reserves.

End all subsidies for coal NOW.

I’m confused, do the Chinese not count as a part of humanity? The entire world is losing to China when it comes to nuclear power increases.

Like you keep saying “we”. China is currently doing what you mention “in a perfect world”. Why can’t we do the same? Why is it that Illinois stopped at around exactly 50%? They ACTIVELY constructing these.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China

In reality it makes sense to keep building nuclear, the resources required to build nuclear are mostly different than building solar and wind, so you can definitely do both to increase carbon free energy rapidly. I agree we need to rapidly scale solar and wind, but we also need to be advancing nuclear power technology.

Also solar and wind need batteries because of their variable generation, again which are different materials/knowledge than nuclear mostly.

This is actually how the bubble begins to pop, we’re seeing it happen now.

I’ve seen this mentality too many times. The fact is China is actively building many nuclear power plants. The idea that it’s “too late” is ridiculous. There is growing demand for nuclear power. You can have solar, wind, AND nuclear.

There is still massive energy demand, “missed the boat” is kind of nonsensical.

Reprocessing spent fuel is also a massive opportunity. But yea I am 100% in agreement with you.

It’s always about labor.

Yea honestly, orbital data centers are the dumbest shit I’ve heard during this bubble, and a huge indication of peak bubble hype.

Technology really doesn’t work like that, putting more money into something doesn’t make something available sooner. The hope of fusion should not delay solutions now. Solar is good and growing rapidly.

Doubt

Solar cells are getting cheaper anyway, there’s no stopping that. And the oncoming oil shortages are going to make the oil lobby look like a joke.

This graph is so painful to look at, if Germany kept a baseline of nuclear, you could have completely phase out coal entirely by now.

Thorium is actually insanely abundant, if we built reactors that used it, thorium would never be the bottleneck. We would need plutonium/uraium though I think the jump start the reaction.

That’s a good point. Here’s a list of countries with the largest uranium reserves:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_reserves

Awesome, I wish you the best, we need more people to get involved in nuclear power, myself included. Opponents point to older designs and point at the Chernobyl or Three Mile Island and think that can happen at any moment, which they can’t. I think we have an obligation to dispel that fear because the designs we build today are better.

I wonder how many of those that died in France during this heat wave think about that idea.